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April 13, 2015

CHURUBUSCO â Churubuscoâs baseball team had to play from behind Saturday afternoon against Fort Wayne Canterbury. The early deficit was too much for âBusco to overcome, and the Cavaliers left with a 4-3 victory.

âThe kids stayed in it and worked their way back, we just ran out of innings,â said Eagles Head Coach Mark Grove. âWeâve got to stop digging ourselves holes early in games.â

Eagle errors gave Canterbury an early lead. âBusco had two miscues in the first inning and the Cavaliers capitalized. Canterbury pushed three runs across the plate before the Eagles had a turn at bat.

April 13, 2015

COLUMBIA CITY â Columbia Cityâs baseball team squared off against Central Nobleâs Cougars in a seesaw battle that was the season-opener for the Eagles. Columbia City pushed across four runs in the bottom of the sixth to take a 9-8 win over the Cougars on Saturday at Max Gandy Athletic Field.

April 8, 2015

CHURUBUSCO â Churubusco boysâ basketball Head Coach Michael McBride was named as an Indiana Basketball Coaches Association/Subway Coach of the Year for District One.

McBride guided the Eagles to a record-setting 22-4 record this past season. Under McBrideâs guidance the Eagles also gained their first Northeast Corner Conference Tournament title. The Eagles also claimed the NECC regular season title.

This yearâs Churubusco squad made the largest turn-around of any team in the state of Indiana.
Churubusco also advanced to the IHSAA sectional final at Woodlan this past season.

April 8, 2015

Highjumper Tim Hearld and the Columbia City boys track team are back in action Thursday after their season-opening loss to Huntington North Monday to take on the other two Whitley County schools. Columbia City and Whitko will travel Thursday to Churubusco for a 5 p.m. track meet, weather permitting.

April 8, 2015

CHURUBUSCO â Churubuscoâs boys and girls track teams downed the visiting Heritage Patriot teams Tuesday evening. The girlsâ team, won by a score of 76-51, while the boysâ team won by an impressive 124-8 count.

Double event winners for the Eagle girls were: Julia Folland, who won the 1,600-meter run in 6:02.57 and the 3,200-meter run in 13:37.19; Rachel Sloan, who took the shot put with a heave of 27 feet, 8.5 inches and discus at 83 feet, one-half inch and Alyssa Anderson, who won the 100-meter dash in 13.92 seconds and the 100-meter hurdle race in 17.9 seconds.

April 7, 2015

MARION â The Whitko Wildcats opened their 2015 baseball season Saturday, traveling to Marion High School for a double-header with the host Giants. The Wildcats earned a split, falling in game one 6-5, after the Giants came from behind in the bottom of the seventh.

The Wildcats came back to take the second game 8-3 to earn the split.

In game one, the Giants jumped out on top, scoring two runs in the bottom of the first on a two-run home run by Javon Yeakle. The Giants got another run across in the bottom of the second on a fielding error by the Whitko shortstop.